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    Marjorie White: Her Life and Work
    Marjorie White: Her Life and Work
    Marjorie White: Her Life and Work
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    Marjorie White: Her Life and Work

    By Gary Olszewski

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    "Marjorie White" details the life story of an actress of the '20s and '30s, a top starlet of her day, but virtually forgotten today. She was among the most talented of young comediennes of her era, and had she not died tragically at such a young age, on the very verge of top stardom, would have been among the names most highly remembered these years later, as the equal of such silver-screen luminaries as Jean Harlow, Betty Hutton, Martha Raye, and the others who achieved their own fame in that "Golden Age" of stage and cinema. Born in the provinces of Canada, she was an outgoing performer from her earliest childhood, Worked the WWI years with the Winnipeg Kiddies performing troupe, and went on to accclaim on the Vaudeville stage, and made her screen debut in the light musicals of the late 1920s. With but 15 films to her credit, her inborn Joie De Vie and outgoing elan, she easily stole the show and overshadowed even the biggest names to whom she played "second fiddle." Her story in these pages should remind everyone why she deserves to chronicled to performance history and remembered with a warm smile. Sometimes humorous, other times sadly ironic, it should bring to everyone's heart a soft "if only, if only." Gary Olszewski, an avid theater historian, began this book after seeing her play the lead in 1934's "Woman Haters", billed top and above the 3 Stooges, and started with the thought "Who was she, and whatever became of her?" Upon researching her life and career, he embarked on a comprehensive biographical/historical journey of her and her family ancestry, which dates to Scotland"s House of Stuart in the 1600s. Gary is a semi-retired Vietnam veteran, and currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he continues his literary pursuits.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBearManor Media
    Release dateJul 17, 2015
    ISBN9781311350749
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      Marjorie White - Gary Olszewski

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Her Family and Early Childhood

      Her sister, Belva Harmony Guthrie

      The Winnipeg Kiddies

      Fred Stone

      The White Sisters

      The Duncan Sisters

      Marjorie & Eddie

      Eddie Tierney

      Marjorie on Stage

      Marjorie: Movie Star

      The Lost Films

      The 1930s

      The Accident

      Notes

      Thelma’s Book

      Personal Family Photos

      Winnipeg: Then and Now

      Winfield R. Sheehan

      In Closing…

      Only the Beginning.

      About The Author

      Dedicated to:

      Every Working-Class Actor and Actress of the Stage and Screen,

      Once Famous but Long-Forgotten

      Thank You All.

      I want to thank everyone, in no particular order, Three Stooges fans or not, for the help you’ve all given me the past few years in putting this work together: Gary Lassin, Frank Reighter, Gary Hammann, Rich Irwin, Cole Johnson, Rich Finegan, Bill Cappello, Rocky Miles, Jane Corey of the Catholic Centre Archives, Winnipeg, Carl White and Helen of the Greenwich Connecticut Library, Anne Young of the Greenwich Historical Society, Helen of the Homestead Inn, Greenwich, Carol Celentano of Fox Legal, the staff of the Margaret Herrick Library, UCLA, all the helpful people whose names I can’t recall in the Manitoba Public Library, Sharon Foley, Idelle Talbot, Chris Kotecki and all others of the Manitoba Provincial Archives, Amy Bowring of Dance Canada Danse, Toronto, Stephanie Jones, (owner/curator of an excellent website on Joan Crawford), the staff of NewspaperArchive.com, whose electronic databases on which I’ve drawn heavily, those also of FamilySearch.org for the same resources, the kindly people at the LDS Family Research Center here in Las Vegas for allowing me the use of their facility, Harry Preston, co-author of Thelma White’s book, Sarah Jensen of Ontario Archives, and so many others whose names I’ve forgotten because I’ve had only 1-time or sporadic contact with, you all know who you are.

      And last, but certainly not least, Ben Ohmart, Sandy Grabman, and Brian Pearce of BearManor Media, for their diligent work editing and putting this whole thing together for the world to see! Without their help, I’d continue on as the stereotypical Starving Artist!

      But my most heartfelt thanks of all I must extend to Ms. Marcine Jones, of North Dakota, a distant cousin of Thelma White (Wolpa), for the personal family information she provided me with, irreplaceable one-of-a-kind historical treasures.

      And to everyone else who has come to share my interest in Marjorie White’s life and times.

      Gary Olszewski

      Introduction

      We all know spunky, vivacious Marjorie White from her talented appearances in films like Sunny Side Up, Happy Days, Diplomaniacs, and Woman Haters, as well as a handful of other really awful films (a few of which are sadly lost forever. However, the question remains: Who was she, and whatever became of her?

      What began as an idle curiosity about an obscure actress has led me, over the past few years, deeply into history: I’ve tracked her family’s history back as far as the late 1600s, as well as detailed personal data on her life, and the lives of her three brothers and younger sister. The farther back I went, however, I realized that few, if any, readers other than myself would be interested in her distant ancestors, so the search through history suits my personal interest, with increasing zeal.

      I’ve compiled a comprehensive biography of her to uncover who and what she was off the screen, in real life, as a woman, as well as a talented public performer. It’s rather sad that her star billing in Woman Haters was the first and only time in her career she was credited over and above the other actors, her last film before her untimely demise in 1935. After the grueling years in Vaudeville, and six years in film, she was just

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